Mercedes Ruehl
Birthday: 1948-02-28
Place of Birth: Queens, New York, USA
Biography: Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an American Comedy Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Golden Globe. Ruehl is known for her leading performance in the play Lost in Yonkers (1990) and supporting performance in the film The Fisher King (1991). Her other film credits include Big (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), Last Action Hero (1993), Roseanna's Grave (1997), and Hustlers (2019). She also played the mother of main character Vincent Chase in HBO's Entourage.
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The Fisher King
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a m...
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Doctors of the Dark Side
Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physician...
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Big
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to f...
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Married to the Mob
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime wo...
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A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002....
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The Minus Man
When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath...
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Another You
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world ...
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Last Action Hero
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop....
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Lost in Yonkers
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their...
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More Dogs Than Bones
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed....
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84 Charing Cross Road
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...
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Crazy People
A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, wh...
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Roseanna's Grave
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a...
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Slaves of New York
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward...
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Bad Apple
Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister resulting...
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Out of the Cold
An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice....
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All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his ch...
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The Nana Project
Follows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road trip ...
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The Amati Girls
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family....
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Guilt by Association
Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when s...
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On Hope
On Hope is a 1994 short film directed by JoBeth Williams, with Annette O'Toole, Mercedes Ruehl, Ray ...
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The Lost Child
Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out ...
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Disclosure
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...
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Chu and Blossom
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small S...
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The Secret of My Success
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, b...
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Mom's On Strike
An ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Afterschool Special about an overworked housewife, who, as th...
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Loving Leah
When Leah's husband Benjamin dies suddenly, Benjamin's brother Jake is stunned to learn he is expect...
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Mom at Sixteen
Pregnant sixteen year old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and deci...
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Twisted
One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. O...
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Doubt
Centers on Vincent, a former cop who's now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his stree...
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Gia
Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persis...
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What's Cooking?
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner....
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestatio...
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The Warriors
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and tak...
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People Not Places
An elderly widow living in Atlantic City meets an erratic homeless man who sleeps in cars. Their sha...
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Leader of the Band
After several months of hard times, pianist Eddie Layton is offered the job of bandleader at Olmstea...
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North Shore Fish
Sal (Tony Danza) has been the foreman at North Shore Fish, a frozen fish factory, for years. He and ...
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Spooky House
A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old...
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim...
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Heartburn
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper column...
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Goldstar, Ohio
Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respectiv...
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Hustlers
A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street cl...
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Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
A two-hour documentary special Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors which gives viewers an intimate l...
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Subway Stories
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which ra...
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Radio Days
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teo...
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Four Friends
A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which ...
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Star Spangled Banners
Ten years following the breakup of the family band, The Banner Project, siblings Desiree, Johnny, an...
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